Configuring disks

This section will look at Azure Managed Disks, the different available options, and how to prepare a custom VHD image.

An Azure managed disk is essentially a virtual disk (block-level storage volume) in conjunction with Azure VMs. Managed disks are designed to provide an availability of 99.999%. This is achieved by providing three replica copies of your data, which provides high durability.

The following table details the different types of managed disks that are available:

This table was taken from the following site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types.

As shown in the preceding table, each type of disk has a specific use case. For AVD multi-session deployments, it is recommended that you use premium SSDs to avoid any IOPs bottlenecks. You can use standard SSDs for personal desktop deployments. It is not recommended to use standard HDD disks for AVD deployments as performance could be degraded...